“My prayer for Helen is that she will be brave and kind. I pray that she will not be bullied the way I was, and that she will be a protector of the ones who are,” Erin wrote in a blog post at the time. “I pray that she will learn that from her father, the protector who loves the people in his life so well.”

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Ben Napier elicits a reaction from his newborn daughter.

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Congratulations, Momma!

“Home Town,” which premiered on HGTV in March, centers on the historic houses the couple restores for people moving into their beloved town of Laurel, Mississippi.